Customer sought for overpaying
A boutique owner in Hochelaga is seeking a client who paid a lot more than she should have for some purchases. It seems odd that someone could have paid $425 for a total of $42.50 with neither customer nor cashier noticing at the time, but apparently it happened – and the owner wants to find her and give her a refund.
MarcG 09:39 on 2025-03-22 Permalink
I’ve noticed myself worrying about this occasionally since I started paying for everything with a credit card and setting up automatic payments on the card. I try to review my statements but you know how life can be.
Nicholas 09:58 on 2025-03-22 Permalink
Some machines transfer the total from the computer to the credit card machine, but some require the cashier to enter the numbers manually. Very easy to add a zero, then the person taps without looking. Some payment machines will then let the main computer know the amount actually paid and add that as a credit on the bill, which should zero out the total, and if the amount paid was different it’ll show that (think debit cards asking for cash back). This probably didn’t.
Meezly 16:16 on 2025-03-22 Permalink
I’m so used to tapping that it’s easy to overlook the amount you’re paying for. But the tap limit is $250. Maybe the lady always manually enters her PIN and was just going through the motions?
Joey 11:25 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
I’m surprised there’s no way of sorting this out with the payment processor, which should theoretically have her full card number. Nice to see an upstanding business owner.
Andrew 14:51 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
This happened to me with a mover I hired off Craigslist, $1800 instead of $180. But in 2011, I think it was still a carbon paper machine. I was totally sure I’d been scammed, but he came back and gave me $1620 in cash, still the most cash I’ve ever handled in my life.
CE 23:50 on 2025-03-23 Permalink
Maybe he did it on purpose to launder cash through you.
Ian 17:53 on 2025-03-24 Permalink
That’s one hell of a grift